Human Resource Business Partner

UnitingCare Health; Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Salary packaging

Recognition and rewards platform

Paid parental leave (12 weeks)

Diversity and inclusion leave

Job summary

UnitingCare is seeking an HR Business Partner to provide strategic and tactical support to senior leaders within BlueCare and the broader People & Culture function in Queensland. The role focuses on workforce planning, change leadership capability, and complex people matters in a six-month fixed-term, with hybrid working by agreement.

You will collaborate across a high-performing People & Culture team to embed organisational change and improve engagement and performance.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a comparable HR partnering role.
• Experience implementing HR initiatives and supporting complex change.
• Strong business acumen and ability to work through complex workforce issues.
• Excellent stakeholder management, written and verbal communication skills.
• Sound knowledge of end-to-end HR processes, employment legislation and internal controls.

Responsibilities

• Partner with HR Business Partners and People & Culture colleagues to deliver organisational priorities such as leadership capability initiatives and strategic workforce programs.
• Support leaders to embed change from transformational programs across Residential Aged Care streams.
• Use workforce data to provide insight, identify risk and support evidence-based decisions.
• Contribute to Enterprise Agreement bargaining and other workforce priorities.

Skills

HR partnering

Stakeholder management

Change management

Workforce planning

Education

Tertiary qualification in Human Resources or related field

Job description

Bring your HR partnering expertise to a business where the workforce impact is real and visible.

At BlueCare, you will work alongside leaders responsible for services that support people and communities across Queensland. Your advice will help build capable, engaged teams and turn workforce priorities into practical action.

As an HR Business Partner, you will provide strategic and tactical support to senior leaders while connecting BlueCare with the broader People and Culture function. You will bring insight, constructive challenge and sound judgement to workforce planning, change, leadership capability and complex people matters.

Please note, this is a six-month fixed-term position. Flexibility is important to us, and we know it is to you too. This role supports hybrid working by agreement.

Your part in our UnitingCare team

• Partner with fellow HR Business Partners and People & Culture colleagues to deliver key organisational priorities, including leadership capability initiatives, workforce planning, organisational effectiveness and strategic workforce programs.
• Support leaders to embed the significant change delivered through transformational programs of work, most recently the United & Stronger in Our Homes transformation in our Residential Aged Care stream, helping teams adopt new ways of working and realise the intended benefits of change.
• Use workforce data and trends to provide insight, identify risk and support evidence-based decisions.
• Contribute to major workforce and industrial relations priorities, including Enterprise Agreement bargaining, organisational change initiatives and business-led projects across BlueCare.
• Roll up your sleeves and provide practical, hands‑on HR partnering support across a broad range of people matters, balancing strategic thinking with operational delivery.
• Work collaboratively as part of a high‑performing People & Culture team, responding to emerging business needs and helping deliver outcomes that strengthen capability, engagement and performance across BlueCare.

What makes a difference for us?

• A tertiary qualification in Human Resources or a relevant field or relevant experience.
• Significant experience in a comparable HR partnering role, providing strategic and tactical advice to senior leaders.
• Demonstrated experience implementing HR initiatives and programs and supporting complex change.
• Strong business acumen, critical thinking and the ability to work through complex workforce issues.
• Excellent stakeholder management, coaching, written and verbal communication skills.
• Sound knowledge of end-to-end HR processes, employment legislation, policy and internal controls.
• Confidence to satisfy relevant probity checks, including a Nationally Coordinated Police Check and evidence of Right to Work in Australia.

What makes a difference for you?

The opportunity to be part of the second‑largest Queensland employer who has been leading by example for more than 100 years. Joining our team, you’ll be welcomed as part of the UnitingCare family. We’re a proud not‑for‑profit with more than 16,500 staff and 9,000 volunteers across our brands of BlueCare, Lifeline, ARRCS, The Wesley Hospital, Buderim Private Hospital, St Stephen’s Hospital, and St Andrew’s War Memorial Hospital.

• Flexible work arrangements to support work‑life balance
• Access to salary packaging, meal and entertainment benefits- up to $15,900 per year tax free as well as up to $2,650 of your pre‑tax income to pay for meal and entertainment benefits. To learn more about this benefit watch the video via theSalaryPackagingExplained link
• A recognition and rewards platform, providing employee discounts at hundreds of retailers, including everyday expenses, holidays, health insurance, annual awards celebration, wellbeing and employee assistance programs
• 12 weeks paid parental leave and 2 weeks paid partner leave, available after 6 months’ service, in addition to the government scheme
• Diversity and inclusive leave, offering paid gender affirmation leave and cultural leave options (paid and unpaid) for those who may celebrate Lunar New Year, Diwali, Ramadan, NAIDOC weeks and other significant cultural events
• Career development opportunitiesto challenge yourself, grow and make a meaningful difference
• A positive and inclusive team based on respect, shared standards, strong values and a commitment to serving others

Child safe, Child friendly

Child Safe, Child Friendly

• provide welcoming, safe and nurturing services for children
• implement measures to prevent child abuse and neglect within our services
• appropriately and immediately address child abuse and neglect if it does occur
• abide by the Child Safe Standards and adhere to the Reportable Conduct Scheme

Diversity & Inclusion

Our approach is simple‑everybody iswelcome here. At UnitingCare, diversity is at the core of our who we are, our mission and our values.We are committed to providing equal opportunities to all employees no matter their sex, race, culture, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.Demonstrating our commitment to reconciliation and building long‑term employment opportunities for First Nations peoples, UnitingCare strongly encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants for this position.

Safe workplace

We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.

Commitment to Safeguarding

We are committed in creating services and workplaces that are welcoming and safe for every person. We work together to protect children, young people, adults and the elderly from harm within our services and the communities we support. We speak up for their safety to ensure their voices are heard. Our recruitment and workplace practices reflect our dedication in preventing abuse, harm and exploitation across UnitingCare.